Prime Minister Collection (#19)

The Jacket of Crispi, 1896. Artist: Henri Meyer
The Jacket of Crispi, 1896. Defeat at the hands of King Menilek IIs army at Adwa brought the Italian invasion of Ethiopia to a humiliating end and led to the resignation of the prime minister

George Canning, British statesman, 1824. Artist: FC Lewis
George Canning, British statesman, 1824. Canning (1770-1827) served as foreign secretary on two occasions (1807-1809, 1822-1827) and as prime minister for four months during 1827

Benjamin Disraeli, 19th century British Conservative statesman and writer. First elected to Parliament in 1837, Disraeli (1804-1881) was twice Prime Minister of Britain

Jules Mazarin, Italian-born French politician, 17th century (1912). Artist: David Loggan
Jules Mazarin, Italian-born French politician, 17th century (1912). Born Giulio Raimondo Mazzarino, Cardinal Mazarin (1602-1661) succeeded his mentor, Cardinal Richelieu

Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, British Prime Minister, 1853 (1910). Artist: George Baxter
Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, British Prime Minister, 19th century, 1853 (1910). Peel (1788-1850) was Prime Minister from 1834-1835 and 1841-1846

Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, British Whig statesman and Prime Minister, (1893). Artist: W Roffe
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, British Whig statesman and Prime Minister, (1893). Earl Grey (1764-1845) served as Prime Minister from 1830-1834

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, British soldier and statesman, (1893). Artist: W Roffe
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, British soldier and statesman, (1893). Born in Ireland, Wellesley (1769-1852) commanded the victorious British forces in the Peninsular War

Victory!, front page of Libres newspaper, 9 May 1945. The end of World War II in Europe, with photographs of the architects of the Allied victory, Roosevelt, Stalin, de Gaulle and Churchill

Georges Clemenceau, 1879. Artist: Edouard Manet
Georges Clemenceau, 1879. Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929), French Prime Minister (1917-20) and physician. Located at Musee d Orsay, Paris

Private and Confidential, opening of the Anglo-French telephone line, 1891. Artist: John Tenniel
Private and Confidential, opening of the Anglo-French telephone line, 1891. The British Prime Minister (Lord Salisbury) in conversation with the French President (Sadi Carnot). Cartoon from Punch

Fidgety Joe, 1903. Artist: Edward Linley Sambourne
Fidgety Joe, 1903. The troubles of coalition government. Two parents representing the Duke of Devonshire and Arthur Balfour (centre)

Capture of Manuel de Godoy, Duke of Alcudia, Spanish statesman, 1808
Capture of Manuel de Godoy, Duke of Alcudia, Spanish statesman, Madrid, 1808. De Godoy was Prime Minister of Spain from 1792-1798 and again from 1801-1808

Alexander Feodorovich Kerensky, Russian revolutionary politician, 1917
Alexander Feodorovich Kerensky, Russian revolutionary politician, as Minister for War, reviewing the troops, 1917. Kerensky (1881-1970)

Eamon De Valera declining the opportunity to attend the Ottawa Conference, 1932. Artist: Leonard Raven-Hill
Eamon De Valera declining the opportunity to attend the Ottawa Conference, 1932. Cartoon showing De Valera (1822-1975) American-born Irish statesman

Count Witte, Russian statesman, c1901-1903. Artist: Il ya Repin
Count Witte, Russian statesman, c1901-1903. Russias Minister of Finance from 1892-1903, Sergey Sergey Yulyevich Witte (1849-1915)

Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquis of Salisbury, British statesman, 19th century. Lord Salisbury (1830-1903) was Conservative Prime Minister in 1885, 1886, and 1895-1902

Herbert Henry Asquith, British Liberal statesman, c1913. Asquith (1852-1928) served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1905 until 1908, and as Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1908 to 1916

David Lloyd George, British Liberal statesman, c1918. David Lloyd-George (1863-1945) was a Liberal member of Parliament for fifty years and served in government as President of the Board of Trade

New Crowns for Old Ones!, Benjamin Disraeli offering the crown of India to Queen Victoria, 1876. Artist: John Tenniel
New Crowns for Old Ones!, Benjamin Disraeli offering the crown of India to Queen Victoria, 1876. Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India on 1 May 1876. Cartoon from Punch, London, 15 April 1876

William Pitt the Younger, English statesman, 1793. Pitt (1759-1806) addressing the House of Commons, 1793. Engraving after a painting by Anton Hickel

Monument to Leon Gambetta, Ville d Avray, Paris, 1891. Artist: Henri Meyer
Monument to Leon Gambetta, Ville d Avray, Paris, 1891. A Republican politician, Gambetta (1838-1882), was an opponent of the French Second Empire

Robert Peel, 19th century British statesman. Artist: J Cochran
Robert Peel, 19th century British statesman. Peel (1788-1850) was Prime Minister from 1834-1835 and 1841-1846. He is probably best remembered for his organisation of a metropolitan police force for

Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of Liverpool, British statesman, 1830. Artist: William Thomas Fry
Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of Liverpool, British statesman. Lord Liverpool (1770-1828) served as Prime Minister for nearly 15 years from 1812

Robert Peel, British statesman, arriving at the House of Commons, London, January, 1846. Peel (1788-1850) receives an enthusiastic welcome from onlookers

Extraordinary Mildness of the Political Season, 1869. Artist: John Tenniel
Extraordinary Mildness of the Political Season, 1869. Disraeli congratulating Gladstone on the Sovereigns speech at Opening of Parliament

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881), British Conservative statesman, 1878. Disraeli was twice Prime Minister of Britain, first in 1868 and then again between 1874 and 1880

Count Julius Andrassy (1823-1890), Hungarian statesman, c1880. Andrassy was a supporter of Lajos Kossuth and the struggle for independence from Austria (1848-1849)

Alexandru Averescu (1859-1938), Romanian military leader and politician, 1917. After distinguishing himself as a military commander in World War I and gaining a wide popular following

Clement Atlee (1883-1967) British Labour statesman, 1932
Clement Atlee (1883-1967), British Labour statesman, 1932. Labour MP for Limehouse from 1922, Attlee became leader of the Labour Party in 1935

Lord Asquith (1852-1928), Earl of Oxford, British Liberal Statesman, 1925-1928
Lord Asquith, Earl of Oxford, British Liberal Statesman, 1925-1928. Asquith served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1905 to 1908 and Prime Minister between 1908 and 1916

Herbert Henry Asquith (1852-1928), British Liberal statesman, 1904. Artist: Spy
Herbert Henry Asquith (1852-1928), British Liberal statesman, 1904. Asquith was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1905 to 1908 and Prime Minister between 1908 and 1916

Death of Jules Ferry, 1893. Artist: Henri Meyer
Death of Jules Ferry, 1893. Jules Francois Camille Ferry (1832-1893) was a French statesman. He served as Prime Minister of France on two occasions

William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), British Liberal Statesman, c1880. William Gladstone was born in Liverpool and educated at Oxford from where in 1832 he embarked on his political career

George Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784-1860), Scottish statesman, 1854. British Prime Minister from 1852-1855, he reluctantly took Britain into the Crimean War

George Canning (1770-1827), English statesman and Primeminister from 1827
George Canning (1770-1827) English statesman, Catholic emancipation, foreign affairs, and Prime Minister from 1827. Tinted lithograph

Sergey Yulyevich Witte, First constitutional prime minister of tsarist Russia, c1905
Sergey Yulyevich Witte (1849-1915), First constitutional prime minister of tsarist Russia, c1905. Peace plenipotentiary after Russo-Japanese War (1905). Russian modernisation

John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, British Whig and Liberal politician, c1878
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, British Whig and Liberal politician, c1870. Russell (1792-1878) was known as Lord John Russell until 1861 when he was created Earl

The Death of Stalin, 8th March, 1953. News and photographs of Stalins death from L Humanite Dimanche, published on the 8th March, 1953

News of Stalins death, 7th March, 1953. Article in L Humanite, entitled After the Death of Comrade Stalin, published on 7th March, 1953

Arthur James Balfour (1848-1930), Scottish-born British statesman and philosopher. Balfour served as Prime Minister of the Conservative government of 1902-1905

Stanley Baldwin (1867-1947), lst Earl Bewdley, British Conservative politician, c1932. First elected to Parliament in 1906, Baldwin served as Prime Minister in 1923-1931, and again in 1935-1937

Satirical advertisement for Copes Tobaccos, c1890s. Artist: John Wallace
Satirical advertisement for Copes Tobaccos, c1890s. During the 1890s Copes Tobaccos commissioned a series of political prints from artist John Wallace, who drew carttons as George Pipeshank

Mr. Punchs Parallels. No. 6, 1888. Artist: Joseph Swain
Mr. Punchs Parallels. No. 6, 1888. This cartoon depicts the Liberal Leader of the Opposition, William Gladstone, astride his horse

The Best of Friends, 1888. Artist: Joseph Swain
The Best of Friends, 1888. The Liberal Leader of the Opposition, Mr Gladstone (left), takes a drink with Mr WH Smith from the Conservative Party

Such Good Boys!, 1888. Artist: Joseph Swain
Such Good Boys!, 1888. Master Gladstone, the Liberal Leader of the Opposition, and the Conservative Prime Minister, Lord Salisbury, promise to be good boys as Mr Speaker reaches for his birch

The Grand Old Janus, 1887. Artist: Joseph Swain
The Grand Old Janus, 1887. Gladstone is the statue of Janus, the Roman god of doorways. Janus is usually depicted with two faces looking in different directions

Salisbury Sisyphus, 1887. Artist: Joseph Swain
Salisbury Sisyphus, 1887. Lord Salisbury, the Conservative Prime Minister, pushes the boulder of Irish Difficulty up a steep slope

Hope I Don t Intrude!!!, 1887. Artist: Joseph Swain
Hope I Don t Intrude!!!, 1887. The former Liberal Prime Minister, William Gladstone, makes his first appearance in the House of Commons during the current Session of Parliament

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